Reflections on the TCUK 2018 conference

It is conference season at the moment, and last week we attended Technical Communication U.K. conference 2018 (TCUK). The official theme for this years conference was “The pursuits of the Polymath”, but in reality it seemed to be about quiet confidence and quiet leadership. This was one of the most optimistic TCUK conferences I have… Read more »

Our slides from the Build your Docs career event

You can download a PDF copy of the slides from Ellis’ presentation last week at the “Build your Docs career: All-Day Event, in partnership with GDS”. Here’s the link: Slides from Build your Docs career event The presentations were recorded, and they will be available in the next week or two. We also covered this… Read more »

Ellis speaking at W2U Conference 2017

Cherryleaf’s Ellis Pratt will be speaking at the Write2Users Conference 2017 , which is being held 1-3 November at Copenhagen Zoo. “The mission is to give attendees new skills for their day-to-day work with technical documentation and translation. You will learn about process optimization, new methodologies and new technologies. All delivered by industry experts, in-house specialists and… Read more »

Conference on Agile documentation

The Gov.uk GDS team is organising a one day, free of charge conference in December, where speakers will discuss techniques for writing documentation in an Agile environment, and how to make your content Agile: Tips to writing continuous documentation, ensuring it stays up to date. Tips to getting the development team to value documentation. Knowledge of the tools… Read more »

MadWorld 2016 Conference Review – Day Two

Last week, I spoke at, and attended, Madworld 2016, the conference hosted by MadCap Software for its users. Here is a summary of what I saw and heard on the second day. These were mostly for advanced users; I didn’t see any of the presentations aimed at new users of Flare.